Relier Pairs The outbreak of the French Revolution (1789-1792)_1Version en ligne The failures of the Old Regime The rise of the Third Estate par Gehistart Artgeo 1 Estates-General 2 Third Estate 3 Assembly of Notables 4 Political thought of the Enlightement 5 Social unrest 6 National Constituent Assembly 7 List of Grievances 8 Attemps at reform 9 Economy 10 Tennis Court Oath It was an assembly of all three estates A tax crisis was caused by overspending on the American Revolutionary War They formed a National Assembly because they considered that they were the only legitimate representative of the French people The National Assembly would become, after the Tennis Court Oath in... It encouraged people to question royal authority when it was considered unfair and inefficie Noblemen and ecclesiastic who rejected reforms in 1787. Commoners considered for Louis XVI’s reforms ineffective while the privileged were concerned for their way of life The Third Estate, which pay taxes, resented the privileged estates that scarcely paid taxes at all. Problems that were presented by people of the three estates to Estates-General